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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:23AM (#21395840)
Completed my MSc at KCL in August and my topic had to do with coming up with a solution for the issues being discussed here. I think I'll be attending this!
Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:56AM (#21395717)
For each person, it seems to be the first few years of using the internet for the first time in their lives.
Re:Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous pos... on Monday September 30, 2019 @01:43AM (#21112069)
https://old.reddit.com/

This is how I still browse the site. You can also disable subreddit theming in your preferences and you’ve got a much more lite version of the site like the old days.

Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (... on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:40AM (#21013874)
You should look at how old this all is. The app was released in 2015 and last updated over a year ago. The app climate has changed a lot over the past four years so take it with a grain of salt.
Re:I Quit Social Media for a Year on Sunday September 15, 2019 @06:22AM (#20976498)
I want to get into this. How do you read your books? I have a TON of PDFs but reading PDFs on an iPhone is really frustrating because of the way the Books app displays them. I have to constantly zoom in and out and pan around.
Re:CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:21PM (#19265558)
Your link leads to a 404.
Re:CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:46PM (#19265183)
The actual HTTP requests this browser makes seem to be going through a proxy somewhere which I'm guessing renders the page on the server using this legacy look and returns it to be displayed. I thought it was using ajax to load pages directly from whatever URL I typed.

I'm surprised this had no support for the <ol> tag because numbered lists aren't rendering.

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Edit: yeah I just noticed how all the links on every page have the domain part changed to worldwideweb.cern.ch.

But damn I can't help but remember Newton's "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Tim BL did not invent URIs, TCP/IP, domain names, or hypertext. He simply figured out a brilliant way to combine all these things together. Satoshi Nakamoto did not invent hashing, proof-of-work, signatures, or any of the other cryptographic protocols that make Bitcoin possible. Likewise, he simply put all these different ideas together in a brilliant way.

Re:CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:09PM (#19148108)
Ironically, Tim BL mentions in his book "Weaving the Web" that when he first launched the web, nobody cared and people at CERN thought it was useless.